Okay… finally, the post from last weekend. My camera never did wake up by the way. But I did manage to get all the photos off using a friend’s card reader. Yay! Unfortunately, no built in card readers on my printer or computer… Boo!
And, I would have posted this last night, but I spent the evening at Pioneer Woman’s book signing in Atlanta. Fun! Fun! More on that soon. Thankfully, I did have a working camera with me for that. A brand new Canon Digital Rebel XSi that I borrowed. It’s nice having generous friends. But, I kinda wish I hadn’t started using it. I might not be able to give it back. Bigger screen, More megapixels. And I’ve convinced myself the photo quality is far superior. It is. I know it is. Maybe my camera will be unfixable. Is that a word?
Anyway, here’s the goods or goodies from last weekend.
It’s coming up on Christmas, so I wanted to make some decorated sugar cookies. But I didn’t really want to make traditional Christmas shapes. So instead, I used a cute little cupcake cutter I recently bought. I also went with a less than traditional color scheme and chocolate sugar cookies to help make the colors pop.
I love sugar cookies. Too bad I love them more than they love me. I’m still trying to perfect my piping. I will not give up. I will have non-lumpy lines one day.
These were two of the better ones.
These … not so much. But squint and they’ll look better.
See …… Okay, I’m kidding. I kid. These are the good ones. Well, the better ones anyway.
It helps to plan ahead when you work with royal icing. Draw out the colors you want for borders and the colors you want to fill with in advance.
The cookie recipe is from the book, Cookie Craft. Get a copy if you have any desire to learn how to make these kind of decorated cookies. It’s jam-packed with tips and tricks.
Or maybe you’ll win this.
Yes, the original Cookie Craft came out with a mini Cookie Craft Christmas book.
Also with recipes, ideas, and tips. It’s very cute. And small, which you know I like.
You’ll also get this cute 2-piece cupcake cookie cutter set. Love it!
And some cupcake stencils. You can use these on cookies, too.
A cupcake-shaped cake tester. This totally unnecessary utensil was too cute to pass up.
And so were these mini spatulas. I bought all the goodies (except for the cookie book I picked up at the bookstore) from Crate & Barrel if you want to look them up. I like finding cute things. Hope you like them, too.
And it all comes stuffed in a sparkly stocking.
Enter to win it all.
- Just leave a comment on this post and tell me what you want this Christmas. Big or small. Silly or Serious. Let’s share.
- Me first… I want to spend time with all my family. Laughing. Hugging. Eating. And I want to take lots of pictures of them with my brand new, big, shiny camera. Yeah, that sounds good.
- Deadline to enter is
Wednesday, December 9 at 7:00 pm ET.TIME’S UP! - Winner selected at random and announced sometime Wednesday evening on this post.
Good luck.
Winner.
We have a winner. And it’s a high number this time.
#5935 – YAY CAROLINE! Hope you like the stocking full of stuff and hope you get that immersion blender, too.
And everyone else that entered. Thank you for sharing your Christmas wishes. I’ve smiled and cried multiple times reading through them. Some really important ones out there. I hope you get them granted. Hugs to you all.
For Christmas I just want everyone in my family to be healthy. And a pair of nice boots.
I would like a plane ticket to France.
A housekeeper!
I want a bundt cake pan and a Wii. Weird combo, but whatever, this is my wish list!
I want a kitchen that I can call my own, where I can put things wherever I want. My last roommate moved the oven mitts in the laundry room because she never uses them. My own kitchen that’s what I want this year.
I truly wish for a peaceful Christmas for my family and myself, a time to slow down, and reflect on the meaning of Christmas.
I really want a Wii!
I want my kids to have a wonderful Christmas. Thats the main thing for me.
If it’s something that I need, I need a running vehicle.
If it’s a want, I’d want one of those fancy camera’s like you borrowed! lol
I’ve just recently discovered your website and I’m LOVING it!!! You have such neat ideas and I can’t wait to find the time to try some of them. Of course, that would involve finding someone to watch my two little monsters so I could do it without being bothered. :)
Anyway, for Christmas, I’d love to be able to see my Grandma. It’s our first Christmas since my grandpa died and it’s gonna be a tough one. For something tangible, new charms for my Pandora bracelet would be fun.
I want to learn how to make my goodies look as good as yours! I made the Turkey Pops for thanksgiving, and it was a hit. My sister and I are going to make the reindeer next week.
I want to be able to relax and enjoy my family. There’s never enough time!
Love the cookies…SO cute! For christmas I would LOVE a new camera too! I also want a blender.
I really would like to go back to simpler times for Christmas… stores close for the night, snow falling softly, get to my Grandma’s house by horse and sleigh singing Christmas carols all the way there…. Wouldn’t that be so fun!? I want everyone to stop being SO busy with needless things and spend some genuine time with family and friends, really get to know each other again, in this time of texting and emails and rushing all the time.
I want my fiancee to find a job, so we can get married next year…
I want a new laptop…which happened to come in the mail yesterday! YAY! I guess there won’t be a big surprise on the 25th, but I really don’t mind!
I want skinny jeans and cardigans. Love them!!!
I would love the Julia Child’s cookbook for Christmas and to spend time with my family.
I keep telling my children that what I want for Christmas is cooperative, non-bickering children. And they keep telling me, we’re working on it, Mom! :)
I want to be able to stay at home in good ole Oklahoma for Christmas instead of road tripping to my in-laws in Illinois.
I want a job! That would pretty much make my year! Happy Holidays!
Michele
All I want for Christmas is to spend time with my family, and for those we can’t be with, to feel our love!
You are very humble, your cookies are beautiful, was just telling a friend this morning, that one of the things I really enjoy is a well decorated sugar cookie . . . just like the ones you have shared. I LOVE your attention to detail!
So as for what I want for Christmas, . . . I am quite disappointed that we will be spending Christmas with the outlaws, . . . the last one was a disaster, so for Christmas I am hoping for peace and calm. . . and a big bottle of rum;). Have wonderful Christmas with your family and keep the posts a comin’.
I want a mini vacation with my hubby=)
I’d love some time to bake with my niece and nephews!
I want to go on a cruise with my husband! :)
I would like a happy Christmas. Last year was great, but not so happy because we knew my husband was deploying about 2 weeks later. He’ll be home for Christmas this year. Having two Christmas’ in a row will be wonderful.
So a happy, stress-free Christmas is all I want this year.
I’d like a boy. Cooking things will do though.
I want a new wok to make my staple stir fry meal!
All I want for Christmas is to save my local library from closing!
Maybe I could bribe the city council with some fabulous cookies made with this awesome kit…
Thanks Bakerella, you rock. Have a fabulous Christmas everyone.
Michelle
I want health and happiness for my family in the years ahead…and a new CD player for my car!
Thanks~
I wish my son could be with us this Christmas. But instead he has the honor and privilege of serving his country this Christmas at bootcamp. I don’t think his drill sergeant will be baking him or any of the recruits any cute cookies or treats this Christmas season. Merry Christmas to all of the brave men and women serving in the military who can’t be with their families this holiday season! God bless them all!
I just want to have a happy Christmas. I lost my dad this year and the holidays have been especially hard. That’s all I want…
Those cookies look fabulous!
I’d love for my sister and brother-in-law and their sweet baby girl to be able to make it home for Christmas.
i would really like for my daughter to start sleeping through the night. My body NEEDS it! Our bed room is also in need of a makeover, so maybe a new bed set also!
I just decided to want one of this spatulas! It looks so nice! And now I’m not sure if I am too late for the contest because here at home it already has turned 8pm… but I’ll try!
Your blogg is best, I really enjoy reading it! Thanks a lot!
I would love for my husband to be able to come home from Iraq for Christmas
I want to have a happy, stress free holiday with my family and boyfriend!
Bakerella, I would love a beach vacation with my husband and children. Just to get away from the daily routine and relax with the people I love the most.
Your cookies look fabulous! For Christmas, I want to spend time with our extended family. We’re having a big party and thats what I’m most looking forward to!
Love the cookies! I love making decorated cookies as well but am also a lumper…but yours are MUCH better then mine. :)
For Christmas this year, all I’m asking for is health and happiness for my family!
Merry Christmas to ALL!
I have a few books on my list and a gorgeous scarf, but what I really want is to be able to find the perfect presents for my parents– they work so hard and I really wish I could show them how much I appreciate them!
ALL I want for Christmas is a warm fuzzy blanket and a good book or two. Some pretty music and or a good movie!
i want to finish all the gifts i’m making for my friends and family, so it can be the first christmas where every thing i give was self-made
I want to spend LOTS of time with all my 6 grandbabies, my kids (youngest one is coming home for good from Chengdu, China where he has been teaching English to 5 year olds!), and my friends and other relatives!!
I would like an IPod and to lose 30 lbs. I think I have a better chance with the IPod though.
I would love to have a copy of Adobe Lightroom. And some WILLING kids so I can take more pictures then practice editing.
I really want a pair of those Victoria’s Secret Sweater Slipper Sock-thingys! I love them! And also the Pioneer Woman Cookbook. Come on Santa!
I would love to have “any” kind of mixer. Be hit counter top, hand or a master cheif mixer… something. My kids lost on of the mixing utencil and now the hand mixer has broken since i’ve been using it with one mixer only! =D haha
thanks, Merry Christmas
(don’t know why people are scared to say that and say “happy holidays” guess it works either way =)
oh my gosh- you did a great job… so cute!
for Christmas, I’d like to have a child-less date night with my husband… bonus if is is someplace far far away!
I would love to have a new pair of running shoes!
My self-less wish is for my brother (who lives in CA) to come home for Christmas so that my mom won’t be sad on Christmas Day that all her kids aren’t home.
My selfish wish is for more kitchen gear to aid and abet my baking habit.
Just some time together with my family. First Christmas since I lost my beloved mother. Happy Holidays!!
I want an engagement ring. I’m afraid it’s likely not coming, but I think it’s safe to share here!
I want to have a safe trip to visit family and lots of fun and laughter when we get there.
I want self washing clothes that put them selves away and are eternally stylish. No iron of course. Who me lazy? Nah.
For Christmas this year and about every holiday for the past few years I have asked for a KitchenAid Stand Mixer!! I reallllllly hope I get one this year! =)
Merry Christmas All!
I just want to spend time with my husband and family and enjoy the season!
These cookies look too beautiful to eat! Love the spatulas, cute!
I want my boyfriend back……
I want to have a lovely honeymoon and first Christmas with my husband. I want to surprise him with some awesomeness! (I hope he hasn’t been snooping like the cat did and found it’s treats… harumph).
I want a wii. I have wanted one for a long time, I just picture fun family game nights of tennis tournaments, hula hooping, and of course racing! :)
I would love to spend it with my family, and boyfrind.
I am wishing for Photoshop….so that I can play catch up on editing my pics :).
These cookies are adorable! I have never made decorated sugar cookies and this definately tempts me.
I want my husband to find a job for his own sake. I want him to have peace of mind even for just one day. I want my kids to appreciate all they were given and to truely reflect on the meaning of Christmas.
A Le Creuset Dutch Oven
I want to have a safe and fast flight home to spend the holidays with family. Its been way too long since we’ve been “home” and I’m R.E.A.D.Y. for it.
i want to learn how to make my cookies to be happy looking not sad looking like they are now!! Happiness, health, good food, good desserts and laughter is all I want this holiday season!!
I want an English Bulldog! :D (this is for when my husband deploys and I need an alert dog!)
I’d like a few days off and a chance to bake gingerbread from scratch.
This Christmas, I would like flannel pajamas and thick, wool socks.
I wish I can win this contest :)
my girlfriend loves these stuffs so much
Merry Christmas :D
I want my stupid wireless mouse to start working again.
And a kitchenaid. I’ve been wanting one for years and I’ve finally hit that tipping point into NEED.
I want to go back to HK!! And spend time with my family and friends… T__T I haven’t been back in 13 years.. *sniff sniff* But this Christmas~~ my friend and I are planning on making those red velvet cake pops you made before!!! Hopefully we won’t burn down the kitchen!! =D
A fire in the fireplace, a cup of hot cocoa, comfy jammies and my family all gathered together around the Christmas tree…mmm.
Love these cute cookies!
I don’t want for anything this Christmas! I’m thankful for my family and friends and I’m glad I still have a decent job in this economy! :) I hope to make some wonderful memorie with my hubby and kids during this wonderful season of giving!
-judy
I want to spend Christmas with our little family enjoying being together and not having to go to work.
I’d like to have all the wonderful baking equipment I would never ever spend my own money on ;) Like state-of-the art piping gear, forms and cutters.
I had a treatment at the hospital today and another one tomorrow. This would make my day!!!
I would love to, one day, take a family vacation before my kiddos group up, which they seem to do way too fast these days! Hope everyone has a Merry Christmas!!!
Blessings ~ Angie
I want our home modification to go through. Don’t want to move my husband and 3 kids before Christmas.
I think that spending time with my whole family is enough… sentimentally! But on the “gimme gimme” mood, I would really love tons of kitchen utensils for my new cupcake business!! =)
All I want for Christmas is financial security!
I would like a job for Christmas. I graduated in May and I’m still looking. Oh and maybe some new kitchen gadgets to make bake cute stuff with.
I want a new sewing machine. one that emobroiders, so i can put my kids names on EVERYTHING they wear. lol
also a trip home to california to see the rose parade would be nice. :)
World Peace, of course!
Aaaaaand a Kitchen Aide Standing Mixer…….in red…
I would love to have a massage that lasts for hourse……
I want a dslr camera for Christmas. In case that’s over everyone’s budget, I’d settle for gift cards to my favorites retail and craft stores :-)
Thanks for a chance to win!
Just bought a house – so I’m hoping for gift cards! Totally boring I know, but needed…
I’ve also asked for a garbage can.
I want my kids to have a wonderful Christmas!
I want a brand new vacuum. I have three: one that is 19 years old, another that was a hand me down, and one that will be ok for another year, I think. I want a brand new Dyson ball/Animal…
I want to be able to make these cookies! Those are soooo cute!
Seriously, though, I just want my daughter to have a good Christmas, and for everyone to take some time out and remember the real reason for the day – the birth of Jesus Christ!
Employment!! I haven’t worked in almost 8 months.
I would LUURVE a big retro looking kitchen aid mixer, but alas is not in the budget!
i want a white christmas :)
A Happy low stress holiday with my family would be nice. Or even better enough to keep the kid occupied during Christmas break so we don’t drive each other nuts.
Oh I hope I win. I just want to spend time with my family. And hopefully make Christmas cookies with my grandson.
I want to make the perfect Christmas feast and actually finish making all the handmade gifts!
I am just wishing for a nice Christmas with the family. Maybe some extra snuggle time with the hubs :)
I want my husband to be back in a job where he feels like he’s really doing some good, and that he’s not a failure as a husband and father.
Coming across your website has changed my life :o) It started me on a path of baking and decorating that I never dared tried before. Where has it lead? Enrolled in school next September to take the Pastry Chef program at the ripe age of 41!!! This stocking would just add to the gift you’ve already given me :o) MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! Thank you!!!!
I want to win this stocking for Christmas so I can give it to my wife! I’ve been so busy with finals and work that I haven’t even begun to do any Christmas shopping yet- and my wife, who is the ultimate multi-tasker, has been done for WEEKS!
This would be great for myself and my 11yo. She has become a little decorator herself. She has these big ideas but Mom doesn’t know how to carry if over to the cookies. I would so love to win this so we can perfect her decorating abilites for cookies. Please pick us. You should see my sad sugar cookies I iced, nothing like these you’ve done. But I guess as long as they taste good, you can look beyond the icing, yes?
Moving to the east coast with no job so far, so I would like a job offer for Christmas!
For Christmas this year, I’d like to be in two places at once – neither side of the family is happy with us splitting Christmas Day between the two homes.
I want to be able to be a blessing to some kids who need remembering this Christmas!
i would like to get a kitchen aid for Christmas
Merry, Christmas
For Christmas this year, I would love to find the house of my dreams — for a good deal of course!
For Christmas this year all I really want is to spend time with lots of family, especially my husband and two beautiful girls.
I want to spend time with my boyfriend and break in a new pair of boots.
Those cookies are too cute! Thanks so much for your website. I’m a professional lurker and LOVE all the things you do!
My Christmas list includes spending time with my beautiful family, watching my girls open their presents and seeing the suprise and thrill in their eyes, and I’d love to get a new Kitchen Aid Mixer (that one is more of a dream instead of an actual gift I will get).
Thanks again for your wonderful site!
I want to received a phone call from my realtor saying “congradulations, they accepted your offer of your dream home”
a job!! just got laid off!! although I am enjoying spending time with my 4 month old!
The thing I want for Christmas most is to get my holiday knitting done in time. But, a nice new electric tea kettle would be perfect for the cold winter we have.
I really would like a new nose, slightly smaller, more symmetrical and with less redness!
Hi :) All I want for Christmas this year is a pair of Roller Skates and a KitchenAid Stand Mixer. Have a wonderful day.
Best Wishes
I want to be able to give to more people, and give $ to other people so they will give to more people! And I hope to get some brown boots to wear when I’m out giving gifts away!
I want a kitchenaid mixer. I love to cook and am even making both cupcake and cheesecake balls this weekend for my best friend’s bachelorette party. I just wish i had a kitchen aid to go along with it!
Fancy new camera… with a macro lens!
The new Garfield book, Weighs In. My favortie comic strip. When Garfield says it’s Christmas, it REALLY feels like Christmas!
I would really love a Kitchen Aid Stand Mixer. Then I could make cookies and cupcakes more often! Since that is definitely not in the budget, I am hoping we will be able to get my kids a few nice things.
I wanna spend time with my family and cook for them. I wanna make them some cute cupcakes and have them all over. As long as they all come, I dont need anything else, I know we’ll have fun and love will be in the air. So, basically all I want is my family to be here with me.
I want a food processor!
P.S. I absolutely love your website. It brings such joy to my day when I read it :)
I want my family to be healthy and happy. And I want a clean house.
I want lots and lots of snow so that we can go skiing!
I want to a job for Christmas!
I just want to spend time with my family! And see my beautiful 3 year old daughter so excited about Christmas!
The thing I want most for Christmas is my husband to receive his permanent residence status in Canada, we’re so close and it has been a long road to be together. That, and seriously, now I want cupcake shaped cookie cutters! :D
I want all the necessary tools to start baking my own bread! A bigger kitchen would help, but not sure that’s going to happen! ; )
Oh this is so cute!
Gor Christmas I want a new set of intechangable knitting needles from yarn.com. I’m in love with the orange and blue silk case!
Bakerella,
Your cookies are WONDERFUL. I decorate cookies (just for family) and mine are NO WHERE near as good as yours. I am so jealous.
Thanks for the push I need to make me work harder!
I have a big family, so it is always wonderful to have everyone in one place. Which rarley happens, but is always a secret wish for everyone to be in one place.
I really wants some new boots!!
I would love to be in Utah for Christmas to be with both my husbands and my family but I’m grateful to be with our little family and all be healthy and such. Now on the more selfish side I so wish I had a new camera and a kitchen-aid …someday!
honestly, i’m blessed at it is. i don’t need anything for christmas.
I would love to get a new mixer. The old Sunbeam that was my mothers died… RIP……
I want time with my family…and my kids to be healthy…and those things would make me very, very happy…but a new house would be nice, too ;-)
I want to take more time enjoying the simple things. With 3 active girls I find myself not doing little fun things anymore. More pj days, more decorating cookies, more crafting, more fun!
I would love for my hubby to buy me a new camera lens! And I want to have a wonderful Christmas with my family.
I want all my loved ones to stay healthy, and I want to have fun for Christmas. All of that after Peace on Earth. You make such beautiful cookies!
What I want for Christmas is my own apartment, away from the stresses of family.
a big fat RED Kitchen Aid Mixer!
I want to be divorced from my ex. It’s been 15 long months.
I want a big fat RED Kitchen Aid Mixer! Oh, and a Hawaiian Vacation with my hubby!
All I want for Christmas is some time off to do some scrapbooking…that’s it!
I would so love a new lens for my camera to take happy holiday pictures of my brother home from the service. can’t wait to see him.
This Christmas all I want is a BABY!!! Patience is a virtue! :) Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!
I want to spend extra time with my loving husband, 8 yr old son and 18 month old daughter! Life is sweet!
I want to continue the tradition of baking cookies with my two young daughters. They love baking and we always bake Christmas cookies together! :)
For this Christmas, I want less worry and more love… I want to jump into the new year without as many worries about finances and all that…. Also, I’d love it if my two-year old was potty trained and if she didn’t get into such mischief. Ooooh…. I’d like a Valentine’s getaway that includes someone to watch my kids! ?
I’d really, really love to have someone come in and deep clean my house. 4 kids can do LOTS of damage in a short amount of time.
Christmas sugar cookies have been a generational tradition in my family for years. So I was thrilled to see your post today! I love the cupcake cutter! What I want for Christmas is to finally get pregnant after many, many months of trying. It is my life long dream to raise a family, but for some reason, it’s taking a lot longer than expected. :)
I would love to find out that we are having a baby. :-)
I want to go to Oklahoma and see my mom, dad, favorite sister in law, 2 favorite brother in laws, 1 not so favorite sister in law, and lots of nieces and nephews. Miss them way down here in Texas, especially on holidays
I want to get to North Carolina safely to visit with my parents, whom I haven’t seen in over a year, and to enjoy the visit!
I want to spend time with my brother before he leaves for a service mission for two years…and I’d be a liar if I didn’t say I also can’t wait for a new MacBook, it just makes design that much easier!
These cookies are soo cute!!
This Christmas, I want to be able to spend time with both my family and my boyfriend’s family. Maybe even for them to meet this year! Other than that, maybe take a little vacation somewhere! That would be wonderful!
What I want for Christmas other than wanting to win this contest…..is for my Husband and I and our 3 daughters to spend more quality time with eachother.
I want an orange (or teal or green) Kitchen Aid stand mixer and a Cricut Expression. I don’t need these things but I really, really want them. I can just picture the stand mixer on my counter, shiny and ready to do my bidding! And can you imagine the labels I could make for all the goodies with my new Expression? Ah…heaven.
All I want for Christmas is a Betsey Johnson purse, A juicy Couture cupcake charm, Harry Potter 6 on DVD, and of course…This adorable cupcake treasure trove!
I would love to be through with the renovations in my home.
I want to be able to get my kids everything they want for Christmas. I’m having a little bit of trouble finding a suitable toy ice cream truck for my boy, though…
I want a serger so I can work on more clothes, lots of time with my family and boyfriend, and more friends with similar interests as me! I love your cookies, I want to try to make some like that.
I would love an SLR camera. I love taking pictures, and only have a point and shoot camera. I like it, but would LOVE a better one.
Love your cute stuff! keep it up! Those cookies are adorable!
For Christmas: snow, a fireplace, relaxing day with the family, and someone to adopt my foster kitty.
I’ve been checking the blog several times a day waiting for the conclusion to the last post… the cuppie cookies! (and while I am sad that your camera broke, I am kind of hoping it stays broken so you can get your hands on a Rebel! I’ve heard only good things… and kind of want one myself! lol)
For Christmas I would like my own Cake Shop :) Totally wishful thinking there, but a girl can dream! Oh, and may I add, I’d also like that Cake Shop to have a built in care area and nanny for my two boys, so I wouldn’t have to be away from them while at work :D
A wonderful, stress-free trip home to be with family for the holidays! This will be hard with two little ones and the dog in the car but we’ll try very hard and smile all the way!
All I want for Christmas is to be able to perfect the Petit Fours that always outwit me. Our friends who are so welcoming during the holidays while we are stuck so far away from family LOVE them, so I will keep trying!! :)
Merry Christmas!
I wish for the black cloud that has been following me for the last five years to go away. And of course, the little gift collection you have there!
I have an awesome camera (canon dslr) that I want a new lens for – one that has major zoom and macro features.
I want to win the stocking full of goodies! and a new camera too….gonna have to wait for that one until next year! I would like a new pair of pajamas. I think that’s do-able.
Corinne
I want to spend time with my whole family and have everyone enjoy themselves and the gifts that they get!!! To some it seems silly, but it really makes me happy when I can get someone something that they want.. Especially after stressing over being able to get them the perfect thing!!!!!! I know if I win, I will give the whole set to my best friend who brought me to you and Pioneer Woman!!
I’d love to get the purse I’ve been longing for all year… oh wait… I am getting it! (love my husband!!!!) But I would also like to get those cupcake shaped cookie cutters. You should develop your own line of products — I would buy them and put them on my Amazon wishlist so that others would want them too!
I’ll be honest, I already bought what I wanted, but I did put it under the tree and am struggling to not use it until after Christmas. I wanted a new Cuisinart food processor. I needed a bigger one, so I go the 11 cup size. Can’t wait to use… but I will wait.
Oh, and a new sofa is next on my list. We’ll see if Santa can squeeze that down my fake chimney since I live in a state where we can only have gas fireplaces put into new homes.
what a beautiful contest!!
for Christmas?? I want a vacation with my boyfriend!!!
Your cupcake cookies are adorable, the mini-gingerbread man is a sweet touch, so are the mini-snowflakes. Everything that you make is adorable! My younger brother had a massive stroke last December, and what I wish for is for him to keep getting better. My wish is also for my family to be healthy and safe. Thanks for the chance to win these goodies, Michele
I want peace…. peace in my heart… peace in my soul….peace around me….. I need peace….
Bakerella,
For Christmas I want to learn to make good cut out cookies. I am terrible with the icing. I have been using canned frosting (how shameful!). I just keep making cake pops!
I am 7 weeks pregnant and I must learn to make cute cookies before I have to start sending them in for birthdays and holidays!! I realize that this is a long time away but I am a planner and I want to know that I know how to make cute cookies!
I also (obviously) want a happy and healthy baby in July!!
I love your blog – you make the cutest things!!
Kelly G
Employment for my husband before he starts any more home improvement projects.
ALL I WANT FOR CHIRSTMAS IS THAT STOCKING! I really want to make cookies now. Wow. I love it!
Really, I want nothing. But in my unpractical thinking a camera or two would be nice, a house, and furniture in it :}
love these cookies! i just made the turkey cake pops for thanksgiving – you are so creative! i would like to just have a relaxing time with family – and a few new books to read :)
A fun time with all the family and friends coming over to my house–and hopefully a deliciously yummy dinner!
More than anything, I just want to have a good Christmas with my daughter. I separated from my husband on Thanksgiving last year and feel like the holidays were just chaotic for her. I would just like to have a nice, peaceful day with her.
For Christmas I would like a fun night out with my hubby and I would really love a LOT of snow to come falling down in the heart of Los Angeles the week of Christmas!
I want to get pregnant. We’ve been trying since April and it’s not happening… I’m asking for a fertile 2010! :)
I would love to get some gadgets to make decorating cookies easier.I love decorating cookies but just do not have the tools to do it. I will have a new kitchen and would like to be able to really get into cookie decorating with my grandma and my two girls.
I would love to have my husband home this Christmas, but he is at the Firestation, again. Instead, I think I will go for something small…like World Peace! LOL
Honestly, aside from the obvious time with my family, I would love, love, love, love a new camera.
I want a pretty apron with my name printed on it and have more time to spend with my family and friends. Merry Christmas everyone!!
All I want is for my husband to get a decent job. After nine months of unemployment and two years of under-employment, I don’t think that’s unreasonable to ask!
I would love an iphone for Christmas…a new camera would be great too!
I want to eat and eat and eat all the yummy cookies without worrying about my hips and my waistline!!
I want a Nintendo DSi. I know it’s for kids but I’m a kid at heart.
I would like to wish for making time to do things I intended to do all these last years, fixing the photo albums, enjoying a dinner out with friends, finishing my small paintings ~ just to be able to keep up with all my previous wishes!
………. all I want for Christmas is ……. a vacation on a sunny beach, tropical palms, sparkling blue ocean, a comfy chaise, and a cold pitcher of pina coladas!
For christmas this year, all I want is to find out I am pregnant. ;)
P.S I love love love these cookies & everything else you do!
I want to spend time with my family and friends (the hubby already bought me a new Nikon and Mac so I can’t ask for too much more! :) hehe)
I would like for my husbands and my finals to go well…and as soon as those are out of the way we can enjoy lots of yummy treats and family time! :)
I want to have a happy, healthy family…..and perhaps a kitchen aid mixer!
I want to see the looks on my girls faces when they open their presents…they’ve both been hassling me for a Nintendo DS for 8 months, and the hubby and I (with a little help from Santa) are finally delivering the goods. I may be more excited than them…I get such a kick out of doing stuff for them!